Stanley J. Horn, Executive DirectorTuskegee Youth Safe Haven

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Stanley J. Horn is the Executive Director for the Tuskegee Youth Safe Haven, Inc., located in Macon County, AL. He is a national community developer with experience in projects on both coasts of the United States. He specializes in community organizing, and is a dynamic speaker and trainer for community development and economic empowerment.

LeClaire Courts used to be a model for public housing across the nation. Tenants there thrived on self-sufficiency. At one time, they even managed the low-rises for the Chicago Housing Authority. Now LeClaire Courts'glory days are gone. And for some tenants, day-to-day living at LeClaire is fearsome because of crime.

. . . Conditions at LeClaire continued to worsen and in 1983, several female residents who were leaders of differing community factions sought help from Stanley Horn, director of the Clarence Darrow Community Center, a social service agency located in LeClaire and affiliated with the Hull House Association.

The following Friday, 700 LeClaire residents crowded in and around the open area behind the Clarence Darrow Community Center in the development to hear Johnson give what Stanley Horn, executive director at the center, describes as ``the most dramatic speech I`ve ever heard.``

Chicago Tribune: Draining the Housing SwampsKemp also points with pride to LeClaire Courts on the city`s Southwest Side, where a tenant-run management corporation has crafted one innovative program after another to improve the lives as well as the living conditions of public housing residents.

The surge in community concern at LeClaire was nurtured by a sophisticated social service agency at LeClaire--the Clarence Darrow Center. Darrow and its executive director, Stanley Horn, served as the housing complex's "own little think tank," says Chicago Housing Authority Chairman Lane.

''It's culture shock to take a bunch of minority people into a lily-white environment like DuPage County,'' said Stanley Horn, who is the executive director of the Clarence Darrow Community Center, which provides social services at LeClaire.

Stanley Horn, executive director of the Clarence Darrow Center, said he is hiring a representative to meet with suburban companies this spring. The center is a social services organization at LeClaire Courts, a low-rise Chicago Housing Authority complex on the city`s Southwest Side.